“Foraging Nectar”
Arinda, "I have tried to think all day and I feel this ( Foraging Nectar - title) captures the essence of the art at the exhibition.
Everything in there from the different spaces we have created to the art itself is an encounter with a search for sweetness. It can be ugly, it can take us to ugly places and it can take us to gardens. We really are butterflies. Beautiful but always finding ourselves in spaces where we may not like, where we are reminded of our past but where, we nevertheless, search for sweetness."
So much to say about the joy of this work, sitting back and watching the extraordinary creativity in Shallal.
Peoples response to the prompt and themes Arinda shared with us, being filtered through the depth of creative vision and personnel experience, to create new work.
I hope she will write more about it.
Part of the joy was to be in a respectful, creative, communicative team with Blair and Arinda, and not having total responsibility for the outputs choice and final framing/shaping of the work.
Thank you to Anna W who went down to help lay out work, to Colin and others who scurried around collecting and delivering work, and with Sapphire organised the opportunities for filming.
Big thank you to new artist/dancer Bobby who took a simple beautiful idea and ran with it, creating a beautiful film, a compilation of piano music by Darcy, voice by Arinda and dance by Shallal.
And to all the artists, they are named below.
And to here also include the Shallal dancers:
Kerry Jackson
Anna Penhaligon
David and Esme Willoughby
Peter Kirby
Sapphire Sumpter
Al Way Owl
Lily Harvey
Tina Butler
Katherine Gidding
Becky Smith
Sammy Avery
No comments:
Post a Comment